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Deviant Subcultures and the Chicago School of Sociologists

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norms began to evolve. The Chicago School was a group of learned sociologists, psychologists and others, who studied the phenomenon of life during this time as it applied to any  number of growing social concerns. Many of the immigrant communities began to form their own subcultures and sometimes those subcultures (gangs) became violent. In this respect, then, the Chicago School  was quite instrumental in offering relevant scientific theories and studies about how subcultures work within existing social structures in society. One of the contributions that The Chicago School made  was in regard to the relationship between social disorganization, environment and criminality. Their conclusions basically proposed that crime was caused more or less by the environment that a person found  himself in. They believed in field testing their theories, documenting arrest data, for example. It was their assumption that larger cities, such as Chicago, gave an apt reflection on the  cultural mixture found in most major cities and that the theories developed for studying Chicago would also apply to any other larger metropolis. Most of the Chicago school operated on  the man as basically good theory. They would go on to state that while man wishes to be good and to do the right thing, more than likely because of  certain vulnerabilities in the species, good is overridden by the desire for something which is bad. This was a major contribution to the sociological profession in that it  swung drastically from Freuds theory of the Id, Ego and Superego models to the model, called the Meads Model, of I-Me model of the self(Abbott, 1997).Sigmund Freud theorized that there  were basically three levels to the human mind: id, ego and the super ego. In a brief overview, he determined that the Id is associated with the immediate gratification of